Secrets Redaction seems to work only when the retrieved value is assigned to a varible

[irfanghat]

I randomly encountered the following behavior when setting up Big Query federation in Databricks Free Edition and wondered if this is expected behavior or just something that happens in the 

Executing cell 1 as captured in the screenshot prints out the secret value, however, assigning it to a variable prints [REDACTED]

[tom_n]

hi, this is expected behaviour and is not specific to Free Edition. Databricks documents that a secret assigned through dbutils.secrets.get() and subsequently printed should be replaced with [REDACTED]. Redaction is best-effort and applies to literal secret values; it does not protect against deliberate or indirect transformations. Consequently, users should never rely on redaction alone and should use appropriate access controls.

Reference: Secret management > Secret redaction